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Doesn’t look like he helped sell too many tickets

Volk hasn’t wrestled since 11/23 and Novak did lose a match by injury default at CKLV, so seems like their injuries are likely legitimate

If you ask this question of Oklahoma State would there be anyone other than Plott?

That’s with no Teemer and OSU getting a major at 157. Flip that to an Iowa decision and it’s 17-15 OSU which is about where I’d have it right now.

@Wrestleknownothing - swimming? Track and field?

I nominate Cal State Bakersfield heavyweight Jake Andrews. Freshman year: 1-10 Sophomore year: 1-17 Last year: 7-16, best win was over wrestlestat #75, a backup for Cal Poly So far this year: 7-2, best win is over 2x NQ and wrestlestat #31 Trevor Tinker of Cal Poly and also has wins over wrestlestat #60 and 69, the most recent of which was a major decision in their dual against Michigan State. Dare I say possibly training with the Focus could have helped him? Any other nominations? Cal Poly’s Zeth Romney could be an option, but he was already pretty good last season. But he did lose 16-3 Evan Frost at CKLV last year only to beat him 7-3 this year.

I thought by Nomad saying that he was saying he was surprised by the seed based only on his calculation of the matrix. Could be wrong but I don’t think it’s the team’s coach that can contest it, but would depend on the coaches on the committee for that particular weight. I believe it was noted that Damion Hahn (Devos) was one of the ones for 174.

Whether or not he was injured doesn’t matter in the seedings. And yes, Welsh finished higher, that’s literally what I just said was the reason he got seeded higher at NCAA’s. But according to Nomad he had Starocci ahead of Welsh in the matrix going into B10’s and assuming Starocci would default out, so not sure what really changed. Looking at the metrics in the old Flo article explaining it, at worst Starocci would have had 50% against Welsh (Head to head + coaches ranking + winning %). And you’d think a tie would go to the 3x defending champ.

Conference finish. They rewarded Adam Kemp, who had 3 losses, for winning 2 matches to win the Pac 12, and Wolak, who had 4 losses, for winning the EIWA. And also put Welsh ahead of Starocci for taking 3rd at B10’s despite 4 losses including a H2H loss to Starocci. Edit: But even Nomad who is supposedly an expert on the seeding matrix called Starocci’s one of the 2 most surprising seeds in the whole field

I’m not really sure what the question was, since I don’t see any comments about an “obvious solution” unless I missed them. But even with the 2 injury default losses, Starocci shouldn’t have been seeded lower than 5.

The #5 seed lost twice at the EIWA tournament to Benny Baker. There was no universe where Starocci should have been seeded lower than 5.

Were those different singlets for OSU?

In hindsight based on the results, you’re correct. Maybe a better way to phrase it is that Welsh lucked out due to it. Based on the rest of the seeding, Griffith didn’t really get screwed since if Starocci was seeded 1-5 Griffith still would have had to wrestle Starocci before the finals. But if Starocci was the 1 (which isn’t what I was arguing in that thread), then Lewis would have been the 2 and would have had a better chance to make the finals.

Could be wrong but I don’t think it was PSU fans complaining. I’m not one, and I did acknowledge the poster that replied to my comment about Starocci ducking Griffith that Starocci didn’t care. My main argument there was that Starocci should have been the 4 or 5 even based on his resume including the default losses.

IIRC, Penn State fans didn’t care because they still expected him to win. Mekhi Lewis was the one that got screwed by that.

Who’s not giving him respect? Flo and Intermat both have him #1

Watching the video, it does appear that the other guy threw the first “punch,” albeit from very far away.

Does Jimmy eat any Cinnabons?

Name them JB! In the spirit of the Christmas season, I’ll start. “A Wrestling Christmas Miracle” is probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

Looks like we’ll have to wait until it’s on Amazon Prime. Kinda sounds like one of the last wrestling movies to hit Amazon Prime, the Last Champion, which was OK but IIRC very typical sports movie.

Well that’s disappointing

What exactly was the conspiracy? Wasn’t it that the FBI instigated the riot or something, not just a few of them maybe being in the crowd?

Yeah that’s what the reviews made it seem like. How was the wrestling?

How about this?

Did anybody see it yet? Looked like it was out last week and the closest theater was about 40 minutes from me, but may be gone now.